C/Cygwin/Python

[Jason Tishler]

Matthew,

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:51:41PM +0000, Matthew Turk wrote:
> Essentially, I want to be able to use it on computers that don't run
> Cygwin.  Is this going to work?

Most likely -- see below.

> I certainly *don't* want to resort to
> Visual C, since I have no idea how to operate in that environment, nor
> do I own a copy.  I know that cygwin has the -Wno_cygwin or something
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^

Actually, it is the -mno-cygwin option.

> flag that'll compile without CYGWIN.DLL, but will that be sufficient
> for compiling a python extension?

Yes, but only if your extension does not require Posix semantics (i.e.,
only the standard C runtime stuff).

IIRC, you want something like the following:

    python setup.py build_ext --compiler=cygwin

Note that I usually only build Cygwin Python extensions, so it has been
a while since I tried the above.  Hopefully, someone who regularly builds
Cygwin -mno-cygwin or Mingw extensions will chime in.

Jason

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